The original post: /r/travel by /u/Antigone2023 on 2025-01-21 12:20:13.

I’ve only been on Reddit for a month but I get the feeling that most communities find tourists extremely annoying and would love to get rid of them forever. I do understand that tourism has its downsides, but I’ve seen so much hate towards tourists in some of the local subs that I start to feel pretty bad about travelling, even though I try to be as invisible and considerate as possible (and I always learn a few phrases in the local language).

Do you feel welcome when you travel?

EDIT: I never felt not welcome when I travelled, except for Molokai, Hawaii, where almost every second house seems to have a ‘tourists go home!’ sign in their front yard. But maybe I simply never was properly immersed in a culture to see the truth?